Africa
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607Tensions Rise Over Escalating Abductions
By Our Reporter KAMPALA, Uganda – Ugandan authorities face pressure to find more than two dozen people allegedly abducted by security forces...
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587COVID-19, Regional Conflicts Engulf African Union Summit
By Our Reporter ADDIS ABABA – African leaders are expected to focus on the continent’s COVID-19 response at a virtual summit this...
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69750 Years On From Idi Amin – The Indian Diaspora Still Remembers Him
This February marks 50 years since a malevolent and ruthless Ugandan army officer staged a political coup in East Africa and pronounced...
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901Opinion: From Internet Shutdown to VPN Showdown, Govt Is on a Warpath
By Charles Onyango-Obbo Ahead of the January 14 election, Uganda shuttered the Internet, lifting them after almost five days. An earlier blockage...
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577GGGI Signs MOU With Green Building Council Uganda To Boost Four Secondary Cities’ Dev’t
GGGI Uganda and the Green Building Council (GBC) signed an MOU on Cooperation for Green City Development under a project intended to...
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563Ugandan Match-Fixing Suspect Released As Complainant Drops Case
By Our Reporter Nairobi — Ugandan Niwagira Ronald Mwine Fred arrested one week ago for allegedly trying to fix a Kenyan Premier...
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859DR Congo PM Sylvestre Ilunga resigns a day after Impeachment
KINSHASHA, DRC: DR Congo’s Prime Minister Sylvestre Ilunga Ilunkamba resigned on Friday, a day after the National Assembly censured him for incompetence....
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963South Sudan switches to new Time Zone
SOUTH SUDAN, AFRICA NEWS: The government of South Sudan Republic has announced it will switch to a new time zone by February...
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1.1KUganda’s Mbabazi eyes top AU job
AGENCIES: Uganda’s Prof. Pamela Kasabiiti Mbabazi is one of eight who have been nominated to contest as Vice Chairperson in next week’s African...
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609Court to rule today on recounting in Kampala Central MP polls
MENGO, KAMPALA: The Chief Magistrates court in Mengo will today (Thursday) rule on an application filed Fred Nyanzi seeking for a vote...
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739Construction Of Uganda-Tanzania Roads ‘To Start Soon’
By Our Reporter Kampala: Construction of two key roads linking Tanzania and Uganda is finally set for a takeoff. The multi-million dollar...
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606Nine Dead In Clashes On Somalia, Kenya Border
By Our Reporter Fighting broke out early Monday along Somalia’s border with Kenya, leaving at least nine dead and several injured on...
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557Police Still In My Compound Despite Court Order-Frustrated Bobi Wine
By Our Reporter The Ugandan High Court issued an order on Monday barring the military from surrounding the home of the main...
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1.0KUgandan Jews Not Eligible to Immigrate to Israel, State Informs High Court
By Our Reporter After years of deliberation, Israel’s Interior Ministry has determined that members of the Jewish community of Uganda are not...
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548Play Your Smelly Games Knowing We Are Watching You! Owners Of Sold Banks By BoU Mafias Warn DPP As She Prolongs Investigations
By Our Reporter The owners of seven sold banks by unruly Bank of Uganda mafias have shown their dissatisfaction over DPP after...
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1.9KBobi Wine’s NUP Party Scoops 41 Out Of 44 Council Seats In Kampala
By Our Reporter Kampala: The National Unity Platform (NUP) led by Robert Kyagulanyi popularly referred to as Bobi Wine, has whitewashed President...
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564Ever Since I Started Leading Ugandans, 2021 Polls Were Most Free, Fair & Peaceful: Museveni Tells Diplomats
By Our Reporter President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni through his foreign Minister Sam Kahamba Kutesa on Wednesday briefed foreign diplomats on the just-concluded...
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568Uganda Accuses U.S. Of Meddling In Presidential Election
By Our Reporter Uganda on Tuesday accused the US of meddling in the country’s internal affairs, particularly election results, days after incumbent...
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717My Wife & I Have Been Under House Arrest With 18-Month-Old-Baby Without Food: Hungry Bobi Wine Weeps Crocodile Tears
By Our Reporter The leader of Uganda’s main opposition party, Bobi Wine, has disclosed that he and his wife are stuck with...
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1.0K2020 CHAN – Rwanda, Uganda Settle For Goalless Draw, As Morocco Crush Togo
By Our Reporter Rwanda and Uganda played to a goalless draw in their first game of Group C in the ongoing Total...
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884Panic Or Election Fever? Heavy Deployment In Kampala Ahead Of Tomorrow Polls
By Our Reporter The heavy military deployments and other cities country wide is the talk by all Ugandans after the government blocked...
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560Bobi Wine’s Private Security Withdrawn Ahead of Tense Polls
By Our Reporter Museveni’s strongest rival Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine, has alleged that his private security was withdrawn on Wednesday night,...
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612“Jack Save Us & Punish This Notorious Dictator Like Trump”- Zimbabwean Leader Chamisa Cries To Twitter To Ban Museveni
By Our Reporter Zimbabwean Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Nelson Chamisa has pleaded with Twitter to ban Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni...
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Stop Your Bogus Rumours That I’m A Gay, I Have A Wife & Kids: Bobi Wine
By Our Reporter Uganda presidential candidate, MP Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine, has dismissed rumours spread by his political opponents about his...